"Scott I. Remick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 02:48:48 -0500:
> Here's what I tried: > > 1) Unsubscribe from a group with lots of traffic 2) Close Pan > 3) remove group file from ~/.pan2/groups/ 4) cleaned out > ~/.pan2/article-cache/ 5) Start Pan > 6) Re-subscribe to group, fetching last 3 days of articles. > > They were still all read. > > What am I missing? The newsrc files, which track messages by xref (server specific) number. All the files in groups do is act as a threading and overview cache. It's the newsrc files that actually track messages per server. BTW, when you switched news servers, did you simply point the old pan server instance at the new server address, or did you setup an entirely new server instance in pan? If you did the former, that's what the problem is, because the numbers used in the newsrc files are group and server specific. If you setup a new server instance in pan, then you probably hit a variant of a known bug, more often manifest as a dud newly subscribed group (won't show anything even after getting overviews/headers, even with groups known to be active and carried on the server in question) on an older server, where some messages had been cross-posted from a group you had been reading previously. Something about that crossposting causes pan to screwup and thing ALL the messages in the new group are read. It's a frustrating bug to hit, but barring evidence to the contrary, I strongly suspect your problem was simply trying to use the same server setup over again for a new server, instead of starting a new server instance and setup. If you reused an existing server setup, it's not a bug, but simply the way xref numbers work -- you can't carry them between servers without creating havoc! -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
